CVE-2018-20990

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-20990 · Published 26/08/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-20990 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting tar (tar project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 76.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.4.16 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
tar tar_project	`< 0.4.16`	`0.4.16`

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR archive.

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